Wednesday, May 03, 2006

The environment destruction fun game

Fouling up the environment is a big joke these days! Look at this ad for the Hummervehicle, the monster truck that any North American macho with due self-respect, ought to drive. The ad comments on the site ban SUV's:

Look at this attempt to ban our beloved behemoths! Don't they know we don't need to follow any laws written by girly men? Somebody needs to tell them that Hummer H8 owners follow a higher power. Apparently they don't know that the "H" in Jesus H. Christ stands for "Hummer!" Who cares if we're contributing to the destruction of the environment? Who's to say that it's wrong to put other peoples' lives in danger? What's wrong with being at greater risk of rolling our vehicles over? Jesus Hummer Christ doesn't see anything wrong with it, so why do these people?

It's the New York blogger Elisabeth who called my attention to it. Of course, you could say that environmental-destruction-capitalism-with-a-smile is better than the raw much-too-serious-capitalism-that's-only-in-it-for-the-profits-and-give-goddam-about-people, but this attitude may lead to callousness and cynicism. And if there's one thing the environment can't stand it's cynicism. Something has to be done to save the world from global warming. The ice caps on the North and South poles are melting, average water levels in the oceans are rising, polar bears drowning, and the climate is deteriorating and destroying man's natural habitat many places on the earth.

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